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She's faced with a toilet in front of her because she's managed to get herself out of the box, but she knows not to use it and still continues to soil herself in the box because she doesn't want him to know what she's doing.

Katie's coffin might have been claustrophobic, but at least John Esposito couldn't fit in it.

The most traumatic parts of Katie's ordeal took place in the larger chamber.

On his twice daily visits, John would coax Katie out.

to be bathed by him, after which John would molest Katie repeatedly, with the initial touching escalating within days to full-blown rapes.

Katie came to dread the sound of banging and drilling as John made his way into the bunker, knowing exactly what lay in store for her with each visit.

Katie was also terrified to fall asleep because she thought that John might reach into the bunker and touch her while she was passed out or worse.

And again, this shows like the level of thinking that Katie is doing because she was also terrified to go to sleep because she was scared that John would come down into the bunker and take a picture of her in this coffin shaped box asleep and then send it to the police or the media and pretend that she was dead.

So then people would give up searching for her and she would eventually just die down there.

It's hard to imagine any child surviving this level of horrific torture and this level of just not just the horrendous rapes he's conducting, the conditions he's keeping her in, but the psychological torture that she's going through.

But Katie Beers was built differently to your average 10-year-old.

I think it's safe to say that.

Sadly, this wasn't by chance.

Her whole life had been a warm-up act for this child.

And so, as terrifying as it sounds,

Katie's past abuse actually equipped her with a perverse sort of training for her ordeal in John Esposito's bunker.

As she herself has put it, I had been held captive my whole life.

I was a maid to Linda, a sex slave to Sal, and now a prisoner of Big John.

The sheer scale of the abuse that she'd faced had given this little girl a sad but unique level of emotional resilience.

and the survival strategies that she'd need.